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stationed some where upon the St George or Mitchell Rivers,
for it is by the Blacks of that locality that all the re-
cent outrages have been committed, and who at present
have a secure get away in the direction of the Nobbies.

Your memorialists have always paid their
Business licenses, and taken out their miners [sic] rights and
paid all other rates and taxes, and now with confi-
dence approach the Honble Colonial Secretary, praying
for that protection which every other part of the
Colony is afforded to residents of whatever nation,
peacefully persuing [sic] their avocation. Should the pray-
er of your memorialists be disregarded, (which they would
be very loath to think probable, they will have no option
but to abandon to the Savages all the out lying portions
of this district, where at present neither life nor property
is safe)

And your petitioners are in duty bound &c &c.